Rumours regarding late US President Warren Harding having a love child were true after all as new DNA test has confirmed the long believed speculations.
The test conducted by Ancestry.com revealed that the 29th American President, who was married, had fathered a child with his mysterious lover Nan Britton during his presidency.
Harding's grand-nephew Dr. Peter Harding, who headed the genetics test, said that he felt "totally jubilant" announcing that the former American President, who served the country till his death in 1923, was Elizabeth Ann Blaesing's father as this has always been a biggest mystery, the BBC reported.
Notably, the late American President's family and close friends previously rejected the claims and instead had called Britton a "liar".
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